Advisory Consultant-Program Management (Program Manager & Agile, Waterfall)
Dell
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
As a Senior Consultant, you will provide technical and consultative guidance for solutions opportunities on a range of complex engagements and deliver technical architectural design, strategies and solutions for engagements.The Program Manager is responsible for the overall successful delivery of the consulting engagements for Dell Consulting. This includes mapping to achieve key KPIs such as customer delight, technical excellence and delivery experience for the team. Using a combination of project management skills, industry specific methodologies, experience and system knowledge, deliver consulting projects through its progressive stages, with the goal of project completion within specified time and budget constraints.Key Responsibilities:Relying on extensive knowledge and advanced leadership skills, the Program Manager has the following responsibilities:
- Set standards for project management, methodologies, success measurement, and tools for delivering consulting projects in hybrid model (onshore/offshore).
- Drive the adoption of tools and best practices for efficient, rapid, and predictable program execution using contemporary tools and practices such as PMI, Agile, SCRUM, SAFE
- Ensure resource plans, budgets, and schedules for development programs are accurate and realistic.Execute change management, vendor management and resource allocation program across the consulting unit.
- Develop and Implement standards for training of project managers, manage and improve project management systems and reporting to measure and report on project status including progress, business benefit, expense, overall status and success factors against plan.
- Manage the risk, issue, and change resolution process and work with other groups/geos/project teams to take corrective action as necessary, oversee project team members for the delivery of projects/programs on time, within scope and on budget.
- 12+ years’ work experience in Transformation/program management and managing large/mid-sized information technology projects through Agile and/or Waterfall.
- Thorough Agile delivery experience as practitioner/coach, exposure to New Areas viz Gen AI,Telco/Edge, Cybersecurity
- Exceptional project management skills within matrix environment and a solid foundation in business process management, tool-based project management and optimization – excellent understanding of the core competencies: scope, estimate, time, budget, risk, quality, integration, resource management, and communications
- Able to manage cross geo, multifunctional teams to deliver desired outcomes, experience managing key customer stakeholders to ensure project and delivery alignment.
- Experience writing RFPs for large projects, experience in PM Tools such as JIRA, MS project, Rally.
- Good understanding of latest technology trends and ecosystems such as Cloud Native, Big Data, DevOps etc.
- Project management certifications (PMI, Agile, SCRUM, SAFE)